Virginia Faulkner(1913-1980)
- Writer
Virginia Faulkner contributed stories to magazines during the 1930s and
'40s. She is the co-author (with
Dana Suesse) of the comedy "It Takes Two,"
produced by George Abbott (1947). The play
opened as "Apartment 17-B" with
Hugh Marlowe,
Vivian Vance and
John Forsythe, and was purchased
by RKO Radio Pictures. Faulkner was the ghost writer of
Polly Adler's autobiography, "A House Is Not
A Home." Faulkner returned to Lincoln, Neb., her hometown, to take a
teaching post at Univ. of Nebraska. She was Editor in chief of the
University press until June, 1979 when she retired as professor of
English. She died at age 67 in Omaha, Nebraska in the fall of 1980.
